Scanpath

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The path followed by the viewer's eyes when reading a document or observing a scene.

    "We conclude that inhibitory tagging is a viable mechanism for dynamical planning of scanpaths."

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"We conclude that inhibitory tagging is a viable mechanism for dynamical planning of scanpaths."

Etymology

From scan + path.

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